p-value

Does the p-value overestimate the strength of evidence?

Posted on March 26, 2020March 26, 2020 by The Concierge

Thom Baguley points to the standardized or minimum LR (p381) to answer this question. The minimum LR represents a worst case scenario for the null in that it compares the LR for against the MLE of the observed data, i.e. the most likely (strongest) possible hypothesis supported by the data, and is defined as …

Classical statistical inference and its discontents

Posted on March 23, 2020March 26, 2020 by The Concierge

“Classical” statistical inference in medicine is usually synonymous with frequentist inference, the central element of which is the null hypothesis significance testing (NHST). Even though that was not its original intent, NHST is in practice used to evaluate the evidence for or against a hypothesis, due to confusion in mixing Fisher’s approach with that of…